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Do you actually need to memorise essays? (1 Viewer)

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Hey! So i see a lot of people talking about this and it confuses me a little! Ive never bothered with memorising essays, all i have ever needed were quotes and a thesis that i can adapt…but now thinking about it, since i can get a bit perfectionistic with my writing and thus slow myself down in exams…should i actually do that?
what do you actually memorise? A general structure? Or word for word?

ive never done this before, i always just go with gut feeling. Should i do this?
 

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if ur good at adapting full responses then memorise, otherwise do quotes. I usually memorise coz im a lazy fuck and don't put any extra effort into english other than the bare minimum which is memorising.
 

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I don’t recommend memorising word for word cause that’s a pain in the arse to remember, especially when you have multiple essay to do. It might vary, but I found that for the most part, adapting a memorised essay to hsc questions are fairly easy. And at the end of the day, the last thing you wanna be doing (I fell victim to this) is sitting there for ages not knowing the perfect response to write, and just having that pre written essay is always a great cushion to fall back on. Like the previous guy mentioned, if you’re not looking for band 6 responses, just fully memorise an essay, and throw in buzz words from the question (maybe even the rubric) and make it sound like you know what you’re doing when in reality you don’t 🙏🙏.
Ps It wouldn’t hurt to save your creativity for mod C
 

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I don’t recommend memorising word for word cause that’s a pain in the arse to remember, especially when you have multiple essay to do. It might vary, but I found that for the most part, adapting a memorised essay to hsc questions are fairly easy. And at the end of the day, the last thing you wanna be doing (I fell victim to this) is sitting there for ages not knowing the perfect response to write, and just having that pre written essay is always a great cushion to fall back on. Like the previous guy mentioned, if you’re not looking for band 6 responses, just fully memorise an essay, and throw in buzz words from the question (maybe even the rubric) and make it sound like you know what you’re doing when in reality you don’t 🙏🙏.
oi mate who said not looking for band 6, i got 86 in trials with this method doing this in one night and doing the bare minimum at a top 30 school. pls don't disrespect me like that ever again.
 

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oi mate who said not looking for band 6, i got 86 in trials with this method doing this in one night and doing the bare minimum at a top 30 school. pls don't disrespect me like that ever again.
Womp womp. Honestly I was just referring to the laziness factor, and if you’re looking for bair minimum (which no one associates with band 6), then just copy pasting a refined memorised essay with a few adjustments to the question is all one needs.
 

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yea mate just be really good at the bare minimum alr u can still get really far? also nigga really said womp womp ☠
 
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I don’t recommend memorising word for word cause that’s a pain in the arse to remember, especially when you have multiple essay to do. It might vary, but I found that for the most part, adapting a memorised essay to hsc questions are fairly easy. And at the end of the day, the last thing you wanna be doing (I fell victim to this) is sitting there for ages not knowing the perfect response to write, and just having that pre written essay is always a great cushion to fall back on. Like the previous guy mentioned, if you’re not looking for band 6 responses, just fully memorise an essay, and throw in buzz words from the question (maybe even the rubric) and make it sound like you know what you’re doing when in reality you don’t 🙏🙏.
Ps It wouldn’t hurt to save your creativity for mod C
Do you have any recomendations for the structure of these kinds of prepared essays? Is it like, a selection of thesis statements, some quote analysis? I wanna be sure its able to be adapted to lots of kinds of questions as well! Sorry if its a silly question, i have never tried this method before!
 

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Do you have any recomendations for the structure of these kinds of prepared essays? Is it like, a selection of thesis statements, some quote analysis? I wanna be sure its able to be adapted to lots of kinds of questions as well! Sorry if its a silly question, i have never tried this method before!
nah all good i reckon u should make a base essay to a generic question that can be very flexible in any sort of way, and then obviously memorise the key TQEs and context/purpose words in the essay. and then try see how it can adapt to different types of questions and ideas from those questions. if i wasnt so lazy, this would be what i wouldve done for trials. prob gonna do this for hsc tho.
 

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yea mate just be really good at the bare minimum alr u can still get really far? also nigga really said womp womp ☠
Why is bro so passionate about English 😭 Nigga was trying to be so nonchalant.
 

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Why is bro so passionate about English 😭 Nigga was trying to be so nonchalant.
why bro saying womp womp 😭 and i aint passionate abt this shitass subject, im just doing it coz i gotta, and im somehow good at it too.
 

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Do you have any recomendations for the structure of these kinds of prepared essays? Is it like, a selection of thesis statements, some quote analysis? I wanna be sure its able to be adapted to lots of kinds of questions as well! Sorry if its a silly question, i have never tried this method before!
Off the bat a couple things you don’t need to memorise is introduction, final linking statement of each body, and your entire conclusion. They for the most part can be very generic and rlly rely on the contents of the question the most. As for the rest, body thesis’, any context sentences, ENTIRE tqes (as you aren’t changing quotes, techniques and analysis as you know).
 

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why bro saying womp womp 😭 and i aint passionate abt this shitass subject, im just doing it coz i gotta, and im somehow good at it too.
Why do you care if I say womp womp? Retigga type shit.
 

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Off the bat a couple things you don’t need to memorise is introduction, final linking statement of each body, and your entire conclusion. They for the most part can be very generic and rlly rely on the contents of the question the most. As for the rest, body thesis’, any context sentences, ENTIRE tqes (as you aren’t changing quotes, techniques and analysis as you know).
yea this guy is correct and also another tip for memorising. read one sentence at a time, then when u read the next sentence, read both of them together and then eventually u will get the whole paragraph like that, and try write it down prob that will get it in yo head faster. hope u make it outta the hood yung bludicus 🙏
 

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yea this guy is correct and also another tip for memorising. read one sentence at a time, then when u read the next sentence, read both of them together and then eventually u will get the whole paragraph like that, and try write it down prob that will get it in yo head faster. hope u make it outta the hood yung bludicus 🙏
I’ll also agree with this, and did it for my history trial. I literally just read one sentence, wrote it down 3 times without looking, then added the next sentence and so forth. Absolute pain to do but it’s worth it if you simply can’t memorise any other way. Also, another thing I like to do is highlight/bolden the key terms and points of the sentences and try to remember them if nothing else. These terms are what brings value to your response, and however you choose to link the key terms together to form coherent sentences shouldn’t matter.
 

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glad we could agree despite our previous disagreements 😂
 

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